The Band

“Why bother being like everybody else when when you could do your own thing?” my eldest sister told me when I joined band in the sixth grade. In middle school I decided to play a brass instrument which was not popular for a girl to play. Most of my friends had chosen a woodwind either a flute, clarinet or saxophone. I was told it was a non girly instrument and that it was lame choice. But I ignored then and stuck to what I believed was the right choice for me. The first day of school arrived and…

dripping down my back. Quitting marching band was one of the best decisions I had ever made, and even though I was happy to be free, I had reservations about quitting. In my mind, band was where I would find people I identified with, but in reality, I didn’t find anyone who shared my interests. I longed to find a group that I fit in with. When creating my schedule for sophomore year, I frantically searched for classes to fill the void in my schedule where band used to be. My mom tried to help…

There are two stories in which one can analyze and put into comparison, that being the story of the “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “The Speckle Band”. In the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the perspective is told form the protagonist Mr. Utterson, which is lawyer and a friend to Dr. Jekyll. While in “The Speckle Band” the story is foretold from Watson’s point of view as he analyzes the investigation that Holmes conducts in the tale. Holmes and Mr. Utterson these two…

"Thus, Holmes is a drug-using manic-depressive with a superiority complex and a long list of other symptoms that can be cataloged as mental illnesses" (Faktorovich, 183). For the 19th century detective genre, Sherlock Holmes was the ideal of a flawed protagonist – imperfect in character but exceptional in his capacity for detective work. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes is "a new and unique hero figure” (Faktorovich, 175 and an eccentric in the truest sense of the word. Rather than detracting from…

What makes “Adventure of the Speckled Band” a good Detective Story? There are several things that make a good detective story, but there is only two that really say how good a true detective story is. The detective is the most important part on how good a detective story will be. Then the second is the crime, depending on how bizarre the crime is tells how good the story will be. Now in the next two passages I’ll explain how “Adventure of the Speckled Band” is a good detective by the detective…

As I sat down on the dirty, sweaty gym floor like the rest of the band, I began to process everything that was happening. In 26 hours, 48 minutes, and 28 seconds, according to my countdown, the entire high school band would be in Orlando, Florida. In four days time, our provincial marching band would be featured marching in a parade in the Magic Kingdom of the happiest place on earth! No one else in the entirety of the marching band was anticipating our five day journey with as much enthusiasm…

The music concert 9066 Music Behind Barbed Wire was the ending cumulation of the events done throughout the semester to honor the 75th anniversary of Manzanar. Inside the university theatre the crowd was coming in, soon the theater was packed with a variety of people from the community and students. The evening event started fifteen minutes late, and then we were welcomed by the Dean of the college of arts and humanities Mitch Avila. He discussed how throughout the semester they had several…

the preceding decades. The most popular recording artists before the sixties featured a recognizable star as the leader of the performers. Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Glenn Miller, and many others were widely known and their bands were mostly unknown musicians. Rock band from the sixties mostly had group names. The Rolling Stones, Cream, and The Beach Boys all typified naming this convention, creating a collective identity for their group and their sound that was absent in earlier eras of…

Brass ensemble piece rough sketch Immortal, for 4 trumpets and 4 trombones, and 1 Person to blow up Balloons. The Trumpets will stand in position at the right of the stage. 3 will be designated as “followers” and will stand in a straight vertical line facing the left of the stage, in front of the remaining trumpet player, who is designated as the leader. The Trombones will set up in the same fashion, but mirroring the Trumpets. the Trombones and the Trumpets should be no closer than 5 feet…

This passage from “The adventure of the Speckled Band” uses dialogue to show that Holmes and Watson are partners. Sherlock asks Watson, “what do you make of that?’’’ and Watson replies, “‘It’s a common enough lash. But I don’t know why it should be tied.’” In other words, Holmes asks Watson what he thinks because he is not sure. In asking Watson “what do you make of that?”, it shows…